What To Do With Your Nutrition When Injured
According to Dr. Layne Norton, PhD nutritional scientist, when we get injured, we should adjust our calories to a new maintenance to ensure we do not gain needless fat and to maintain muscle mass while injured.
Supplements for Injuries
Can fish oil or curcumin help with injury recovery? Learn more in my interview with Legion Athletics and Examine.com’s Kurtis Frank, where we discuss dietary supplements for injury recovery.
Top 3 Myths About High Protein Diets
High protein diets are essential not only for building muscle and strength for athletes, but high protein diets are also safe and beneficial. It is a myth to say high protein diets are unhealthy or dangerous.
The Mental Side of Surgery and Recovery
What mindset should athletes have when they are injured? According to sports psychology, many athletes —at least in the short term— will have to pursue other meaningful purposes.
Nietzsche’s Birth of Tragedy
The Birth of Tragedy was Friedrich Nietzsche’s first book, and it anticipates various themes and ideas that appear in his later philosophy.
Jung, Sophocles, and Socrates: Antigone Archetypes
Creon embodies the tyrannical father Jungian archetype in Sophocles’ Antigone.
Rousseau’s Discourses: A Short Critique
Should humanity return to nature? Does society and private property make humanity worse, as Rousseau thought?
Why Morality is Objective
Morality is only interpretation, says Nietzsche. There are no objective moral truths, only interpretations. This essay argues that morality is, in fact, objective.
Sartre: Bad Faith and its Incompatibility with Human Freedom
Sartre’s seminal text Being & Nothingness presents human beings as perpetually in a state of self-delusion and consciousness of said bad faith. How is human freedom possible when we are arguably always in bad faith?
Sex Differences in Injury Recovery
Depending on the injury or sport, your recovery outcome for an injury may vary depending on your biological sex.
The Health Implications of Protein
Are the protein recommendations too low? The leading nutritional scientist studying protein thinks so.
How to Workout Around Injuries
Getting injured does not mean that we have to stop working out. There are scientifically supported methods of working out around —not through!— injuries that are easily implementable.
Strategies for Injury Rehab
Strategies such as unilateral training and other forms of “working around” one’s injury can help athletes stay in shape while recovering from an injury.
Personal Lessons from Being Injured
Getting hurt in the gym sucks, and it can really bring you down if you let it.
Quick Fat Loss Strategies
Losing weight is challenging. Fat loss approaches that incorporate intermittent fasting, high fiber intake, high water intake, and calorie tracking will make fat loss success more likely to occur.
The Definitive Guide to Building Muscle Naturally
Building muscle with steroids is simple but is often obscured by fitness influencers and multi-media enterprises.
Why Therapy Is Not For Everyone
Mental health treatment often involves talk therapy, but some do not respond well to this form of treatment.
The Ethics of Video Games
Video games were once thought of by the masses to be a cause for violence, but this moral panic is proven wrong by empirical studies.
The Ethics of Flakiness
Flakiness is akin to stringing someone along in a relationship. Being flaky is unethical, leading to the depression of the person strung along.
The Philosophy of Metta Meditation
In Buddhism, Metta meditation guides us to intentionally bring about feelings of love and compassion, leading to positive changes in our experience.